Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Bananas, a touch of rum and lemon, and chocolate combine in this delicious banana loaf.

Awhile ago I saw a blog post about zebra cake. Farida, from Farida's Azerbaijani Cookbook posted about a zebra cake she carefully made by adding a tablespoonful at a time of white batter and chocolate batter. When I went to make this Black-and-White Banana Loaf for Tuesdays with Dorie, it seemed like the right time to try it out. However, I failed to double-check the method and just did layers of white and chocolate batter instead. Although this gave me a neat looking striped cake, I’d love to try making it again using Farida’s technique. Here’s another person who gave zebra cake a try and put her results and method on Flickr.

Campfire Banana SplitsWe’ve been spending a lot of time around a campfire this summer. And although s’mores are the most popular, my personal favorite are campfire banana splits, another take on bananas and chocolate.

Slice the peel of the banana from one end to the other, and slice the banana inside into chunks. Stuff the banana with chocolate, marshmallows, and whatever else you want. Wrap with the aluminum foil.

Place on the grill or right in the coals of the fire.

Leave in long enough to melt the chips and the marshmallows.

Recipe

You can find the recipe for Black-and-White Banana Loaf in the book Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan. To see how the rest of the TWD group fared with this week's recipe, click here and then click on each blogger! Thanks to Ashlee from A Year In The Kitchen who chose the recipe for this week.Tasting NotesThese were delicious with the chocolate and banana flavor in each bite. We took these camping and enjoyed them as part of our breakfast. I'll definitely be making these again!

Ummm, here's the thing. We all took a vote and decided you have to go.You are making the rest of us look stupid.So I looked around the room, and everyone voted you off the TWD island. I tried to stop it, to protest, but then I smacked myself into agreeing with the other (mes) in the room.I will certainly miss you. It's been fun.

Square cupcakes? This might be going too far...cupcakes are round and shapely and sweet and cuddly and curvy and cute and lend themselves to smileys...square cupcakes are a whole different ballgame...LOL!

Everything looks wonderful, post is wonderful, photos are wonderful, you are wonderful...we all look forward to tuning in each week. When are you coming home anyway? This is really disheartening that you are doing all these marvelous things over campfires and in someone else's kitchen! Those are supposed to be handicaps!

I am loving the layered look as cupcakes! Very cool. I love that you are doing the campfire banana splits too - I was just talking to a friend about how long it has been since I did that - we always called them banana boats!

Heather (hangrypants) - I used silicon cupcake liners and they worked great! The cupcakes came out of the liners easily (and I didn't bother spraying them before baking either). I highly recommend them. They look cute too!